In response to Dupont full page ad in The Garden Island Newspaper October, 10th 2013

Dupont, in response to the pressure of the concerned citizens of kauai and bill
2491 ran a newspaper ad that listed all the contributions they have given to the
community of kauai. as there is no denying the effort they have made to keeping a
clean image. This list will attest to the amount of corporate crimes this company
has committed. Beware kauai!!
please check all sources listed.
1987 the New Jersey Supreme Court found that DuPont had deliberately
concealed medical records identifying that several workers were suffering
illnesses related to asbestos exposure
1991 it was revealed that a former DuPont landfill site, in Newport, New Castle
County, Delaware had contaminated the groundwater both on and off the site,
with heavy metals, including barium, cadmium, and zinc, as well as
trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene. According to the US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) the pollution potentially threatened the water supply
of 131,000 people.
1991 DuPont was fined $1.9 million for dumping corrosive acids and toxic
solvents at a plant in New Jersey.
1991, the area around DuPont's Quimica Fluor plant in Matamoros, Mexico, was
judged so toxic that the Mexican President ordered 30,000 people to give up their
homes in order to create a two mile buffer zone around the site. The company paid
$2.16 million to nearby farmers whose crops were damaged by toxic releases.
1992 Dupont ordered to pay 1.89 million for shipping pesticides without proper
labeling
1993 the EPA charged DuPont with Toxic Substances Control Act violations for
failing to include test data in a pre-manufacture notice submitted in 1984; the
agency proposed a fine of $158,375
1994 DuPont agreed to phase out its toxic herbicide Cyanazine by 1999, when the
US EPA discovered that it and other related herbicides were contaminating
drinking water in parts of the US.
1994 6 nursery operators, five on the Big Island and one on O'ahu were among
hundreds of growers nationwide who sued DuPont in the early 1990s alleging
that its Benlate fungicide caused widespread crop damage. The six settled for $10
million
1998 DuPont was fined $1.9 million by the EPA for misbranding and mislabeling
pesticides.
1998 analysis of ten DuPont chemical plants shows that up to seven million
people in surrounding communities are at risk from potential worst-case
chemical accidents. The analysis of the plants’ hazards addressed three
chemicals commonly associated with chemical accidents -chlorine, ammonia, and
hydrofluoric acid.Irresponsible waste disposal
DuPont has an appalling record of irresponsible waste disposal although it is
impossible to quantify how many people’s lives have been adversely affected by
the company’s dash for profits at any cost.
1998 DuPont was ordered by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to
carry out a $65 million clean up of its Necco Park landfill site near Niagara

In response to Dupont full page ad in The Garden Island Newspaper October, 10th 2013

Falls. This was necessary due to concerns regarding hazardous liquid seepage
from the site
1999 DuPont was listed by the US Public Interest Research Groups as one of the
‘Dirty Five’ – the five biggest polluters in the US – that together spent $6,523,677
over the period 1991-1998 in lobbying Congress, the House of Representatives
and Superfund-related committees in order to prevent stricter legislation
1999 OSHA announced that DuPont would pay $70,000 to settle charges that it
failed to record more than 100 injury and illness cases at its plant in Seaford,
Delaware.
1999 DuPont Agriculture and Nutrition, among the largest of the company’s six
business units, acquired Pioneer Hi-Bred—a top producer of genetically modified
seeds
2000 Patent abuse (Patent EP 744888). This covers all maize plants containing
over 50% oil, including those produced by traditional breeding methods. The
patent also covers any use of these maize varieties, including cultivation,
harvesting, and processing, whether for food, animal fodder or industrial use.
By obtaining this patent DuPont has managed to pass off any such varieties of
maize as its invention. This is despite the fact that such varieties already exist in
Latin America, having been obtained through traditional breeding techniques.
According to the Mexico based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre
(CIMMYT), “this patent may considerably impede the development of maize varieties
in Latin America.” Dr Sukestoshi Taba from CIMMYT states that the patent could
“seriously discourage further research on maize oil content if it is not
challenged.
2000 Waimea residents officially request relief, Pioneer’s GMO operations have
continually generated excessive fugitive dust and used inherently dangerous
pesticides without taking preventative steps to control airborne pollutants as
promised by Pioneer and as required by state and county law.
2000 DuPont agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle alleged EPA violations related
to a 1995 release of more than 23,000 gallons of a sulfuric acid solution into
the air at the company’s plant in Wurtland, Kentucky.
2001 residents in Mississippi, in the US, threatened a $3 billion lawsuit against
DuPont, claiming damage from dioxin pollution. The pollution was left in wastes
similar to those found piled near DuPont's Edge Moor titanium dioxide plant in
Delaware in 2001, for which the US EPA is forcing DuPont to pay approximately
$12.4 million in remediation costs.
2001 DuPont announced that by the end of the year it would stop selling the
fungicide Benlate, after 33 years on the market. The company cited the high legal
cost of defending the product as the reason for its decision. Litigation and
settlement charges relating to the compound have cost the company
approximately $1 billion over the last ten years. DuPont has set aside additional
money to cover future losses and litigation expenses, bringing the total
financial cost to $1.3 billion dollars.
2002 DuPont was rated as the number one worst polluter on the Political
Economy Research Institute's Toxic 100 index. The index is based on 2002 EPA
Toxics Release
2003 DuPont paid $550,000 to settle charges that it violated the Clean Air Act
with a chemical release at a fluoroproducts plant in Kentucky.

In response to Dupont full page ad in The Garden Island Newspaper October, 10th 2013

2004 the Environmental Protection Agency charged that for two decades DuPont
failed to report signs of health and environmental problems linked to
perfluorooctanoic acid (or PFOA), the PFC used in making Teflon. Residents
living near the plant in West Virginia where DuPont produced PFOA sued the
company, which agreed to pay about $100 million to settle the case. DuPont also
paid $16.5 million to settle the EPA charges and later agreed to gradually phase
out PFOA; the Justice Department decided not to bring criminal charges. The
litigation over PFOA did not end. I/
2005 the EPA and the Justice Department announced that DuPont had agreed to
pay more than $2.3 million to settle Clean Air Act charges related to leaks of
ozone-depleting refrigerants at a plant in Tennessee.
2005 DuPont will pay $10.25 million -- the largest civil administrative penalty
EPA has ever obtained under any federal environmental statute -- to settle
violations alleged by EPA over the company's failure to comply with federal law.
2006 the federal government and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources
reached an agreement with DuPont and Ciba under which the companies agreed to
pay more than $1.6 million to clean up the DuPont Newport Superfund Site, which
contaminated wetlands in and around the Christina River ecosystem
2007 DuPont was found guilty of wanton, willful and reckless conduct and
ordered to pay $196.2 million in punitive damages at the end of the final phase of
a complex trial Friday.
When combined with previous verdicts in earlier phases of the same trial, the
jury awards against DuPont now total nearly $400 million.
The Harrison County Circuit Court case concerned the dangers surrounding the
waste from a former zinc-smelting plant in Spelter. Ten residents sued the
chemical giant in a four-part trial involving property damage claims, long-term
health screenings and corporate accountability.
2007 the EPA and the Justice Department announced that they had settled Clean
Air Act charges against DuPont with an agreement under which the company
would spend at least $66 million on emissions control equipment at four
sulfuric acid production plants in Louisiana, Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. DuPont
and Lucite International later agreed to pay $2 million to settle allegations of
violations at another sulfuric acid plant in West Virginia owned by Lucite but
run by DuPont.
2009 the EPA revealed that after Koch Industries acquired a dozen synthetic
fiber plants from DuPont, the company reported to the EPA that the facilities
had extensive environmental compliance problems. An audit found more than 600
violations.
2010 DuPont agreed to pay $70 million to plaintiffs to settle a class-action suit
concerning decades of pollution by the company’s former zinc smelter in West
Virginia. DuPont also agreed to fund a 30-year medical testing program that was
estimated to cost another $80 million. The settlement put an end to DuPont’s
appeal of a $400 million jury verdict three years earlier.
2010 DuPont agreed to pay a penalty of $3.3 million to the EPA to resolve 57
Toxic Substances Control Act violations involving the failure to immediately
notify the EPA of research results showing substantial risks found during the
testing of chemicals for possible use as surface protection.
2011 MCALLEN, TX – Dozens of Valley workers claim Pioneer Hi-Bred
International violated their federal rights when it underpaid them and forced

In response to Dupont full page ad in The Garden Island Newspaper October, 10th 2013

them to work in fields that were being sprayed with pesticides. Pioneer currently
denies the allegations as the case is ongoin. Texas Court records show that
South Texas workers have sued Pioneer Hi-Bred International more than 15 times
since 1979
2011 A group of Kauai residents has sued a major seed company, saying its
genetically modified crops have led to pesticide-laden dust being blown onto
homes for more than a decade.
Attorneys for 150 Waimea residents filed the lawsuit Tuesday in 5th Circuit
Court against Iowa-based Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc.
2011 the EPA ordered DuPont to halt immediately the sale or distribution of the
herbicide Imprelis that had been found to be harming a large number of trees.
The company also faced compensation claims from users of the herbicide running
into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
2011, the EPA, the Justice Department and state agencies in Delaware entered
into a consent decree with DuPont under which the company agreed to pay a
penalty of $500,000 for numerous water quality violations at its Edge Moor
plant. Shortly thereafter, DuPont agreed to pay a $250,000 civil penalty to
settle alleged violations of hazardous wastewater regulations at the company’s
wastewater treatment plant in Deepwater, New Jersey.2012: Over 30,000 have
been filed from individual homeowners, municipalities, landscapers and golf
courses. There is also a class-action lawsuit in the works for the pesticide,
Imprelis, now discontinued.
The company is currently in the process of settling the individual claims.
According to the new york times, DuPont estimates that claims could reach a
total of $575 million, though anything over $100 million would be handled by
the company's insurance. Plaintiffs have complained publicly that DuPont is
stalling settlements.

2013 The trial of DuPont (Australia) Ltd for an alleged herbicide land pollution
incident will begins in the NSW Land and Environment Court
"The EPA expects it will present evidence from more than 100 witnesses in its
case
2013 the world’s largest maker of titanium dioxide, has agreed to pay $72 million
to settle charges that it conspired to artificially increase prices of the white
pigment.
2013 reached a class-action settlement over its sale of Imprelis, a herbicide that
was once deemed an environmentally friendly way to combat weeds but has now
been blamed for tree deaths across the country.dedicated $750 million to
payouts, with room to grow the fund to $900 million, according to Bloomberg
News. In addition to payouts, it agreed to remove and replace impacted trees.